You know, a couple of years ago if I’d have found myself writing a ‘happy new year’ post on 24 January, I would have felt oddly anxious. That’s what happens when you allow conscientiousness to run rampant. I can see the documentary now: When Good Traits Go Bad. These days, it doesn’t bother me…

Happy new year! I know, I’m late. But surely we can start a new year any time we like? I actually think that each ‘new year’ really starts on 1 Feb, because January is just a month of pause for me. Do you find yourself in a lovely limbo in January too? Before I reveal…

Happy new year! Happy! New! Year! I’m not going to do the big spiel about the annus horribilis that was 2016, because yes, I get it, it was a bad one for so many across the globe. For me, it was merely just a slippery year that I never quite grabbed hold of. Case in…

As the calendar flips each year I invite you to share a single word that you will use to guide your year ahead. It’s not a resolution (although it can be, if you want); rather, it’s an intention. This is our fifth year of coming together to share our hopefulness for what’s coming up in the new year. I…

And so the page turns on a new chapter for us all. Don’t you love that collective rush of energy and hope that the turn of the year brings? I make it a rule to thoughtfully leave the old year behind, smooth a fresh page ready to fill with dreams that have every opportunity of coming…

It’s simple really… so simple. Swapping one thing for another in 2014, one word at a time. Just remembering what’s important to me. Writing it down and wondering more or less about what it means. Tinkering. What is more or less important to you?

Welcome 2014, we’ve been expecting you… The turning of a new year fires me up every time. I am a firm believer in a new year sparking a brand new beginning. A chance. What we do with that chance is completely up to us – do we bother to do anything with it at all?…

… and I’m busy getting ready for it! I loved everything we all got up to this year – Weekend Rewind, Kidspot Voices of 2013, 52 Project with Jodi and all the laughs and all the good advice I’ve received from everyone who joins me here. I’m so looking forward to 1.1.14 when I’ll be doing…

And here we are. A brand new year, clean, unblemished, unwalked and unmastered. The page turns with the unlocking of possibility. Now is the time to shrug off everything that held us back or told us we couldn’t last year. All the bits of the bits of the bits of life that made us weary…

Sooooooo, way back in January (which actually feels like last week) a lot of us conscientious types chose a word for our year. One word that we were going to stamp all over 2012. Amanda at Elliboo chose ‘Energy’ Christie at Childhood 101 chose ‘Balance’ Kelly at A Life Less Frantic chose ‘No’ Michele at The…